Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1891. Maurice Leloir. First Altemus Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in silver, gilt and green onto upper board and spine, publisher's device stamped in blind onto lower board, all edges gilt, square 8vo (9-1/8 inches tall), pp. 296, decorative green and gilt..... More
Amsterdam: A La Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme, Libraire, 1757. Hardcover. Full leather over boards, title and decorations in gilt to spine, triple rule worked onto top and bottom boards, decorative gilt to board edges, marbled endpapers, all edges stained red, printed on laid paper, half-title present, title page printed in..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's decorative blind stamped cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (7-1/4 inches tall), pp. x, 480, colored endpapers, tissue-guarded steel engraved frontis with 8 additional engraved plates (Wagner-Camp plate count omits the plate "Prairie on..... More
London: Printed for Joseph Mawman, in the Poultry, Successor to Mr. Dilly, 1800. Hardcover. This treatise examines the effects of crime on the commercial trade of the River Thames and interestingly, a copy was presented by the author to King George III shortly after it's publication. Title continues "With an..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Red half-leather over marbled paper boards, title in gilt to spine, 12mo (7inches tall), pp. 310, marbled endpapers, sewn headbands, bookbinders tag, "Relieur G.A. LaFrance, Quebec" at foot of front pastedown. Volume with slight fade to spine, edge wear..... More
Edinburgh / Dublin: Silvester Doig & Andrew Stirling and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1815. Hardcover. Black leather over stiff card, 48mo (3-3/8 inches [8.7 cm] tall), pp. unpaginated [216, plus 2 blank leaves at rear], printed on watermarked paper with reckoning tables throughout, "New Stamp Duties" page dated Sept. 1st, 1815..... More
![Item #4655 [Breweriania] 1838 Brewery & Malt-House "To Be Let" Letterpress Broadside. W. GOODING,...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4655.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692472689)
Marlborough, UK: Emberlin and Harold, 1838. Broadside. A 13.5 x 8.25 inch wide letterpress broadside, advertising a dwelling house, garden, stable, barn, yard, paddock, a Brewery and a Malt-House for rent. Froxfield is a village in the English county of Wiltshire, just east of London. An English pub still stands..... More
![Item #4152 [Arbuthnott Castle] A New System of Shoeing Horses : with an Account of the Various...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4152.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674868597)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; and J. Porter, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce work on the shoeing of horses, predating the Grimshaw bibliography of British Horse books date range by over 30 years. Cloth backed paper over boards, title stamped in gilt onto leather spine label, colored..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt, red and black onto upper board and spine, 12mo (6-7/8 inches [17.6 cm] tall), pp. 153, illustrated title page. Volume with modest wear, scuffs and bumps, text block with..... More
Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Company, 1899. Isaac Sprague. Later Printing. Hardcover. A beautifully executed 19th century flower plate book, still in it's original dust jacket and the publisher's two-part gift box with paste-on label. Copyright page has an 1885 copyright date, title page with 1899. Forest green linen over..... More
![Item #950 [1679 Popish Plot] Some Reflections Upon the Earl of Danby, in Relation to the Murther...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/950.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1367442806)
(London): s.n., (1679). First Edition, First Issue (assume). Folded Sheet. [caption title] Small folio (11-3/4 inches [30 cm] tall), pp. 4, signed "J.B."; toning and light soil, lacking self wrappers, issue with a comma after Godfrey instead of a period, pen notation "Henry Nevill alias Paine" in an old hand..... More
![Item #3188 [Horticulture, Botany] The Gardener's New Kalendar : Directing the Necessary Work to...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660603951)
Dublin: Printed By H. Colbert, 1795. New Edition. Hardcover. Title continues "To Which are Prefixed, Directions for Preparing Compost for Flowers, and Artificial Manures. With an Appendix, Containing Directions for Budding, Grafting, Pruning, and Inoculating, in Which the Different Species of Grafting are Clearly Directed, viz. Rind or Shoulder, Whip..... More
![Item #4978 [19th c. Marriage] John Lawson's Rule for the Choosing and Loving of a Wife. John...](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4978.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733870426)
Edinburgh: Printed for J. L. by E. Glass, 1841. Second Edition. Unbound. A single, unbound sheet (printed on rag paper having chain lines and a Britannia watermark) remaining uncut and as printed in 1841. Title continues "Penicook, 12th May, 1805 ; to Which is Added His Advertisement for a Spouse..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in red and gray onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 12mo (7-1/2 inches tall), pp. 182, [6] ads, color frontis, illustrated throughout..... More
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902. First Edition, Second State. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, title and decorations blind-stamped in color and gilt onto upper board and spine, illustrated paste-down vignette to top board, 8vo (8-7/8 inches tall), pp. unpaginated [xx, 96], illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy; decorations by Virginia Keep..... More
Mount Vernon, N.Y. The Peter Pauper Press, [c.1945]. Hardcover. Decorated gray paper over boards with white paper label on spine, top edges stained pink, 8vo, (9 inches tall), pp. 109. Volume with sunning to spine and a small closed tear to middle of upper joint; slipcase with paste-down printed as..... More
Cottolengo, Napoli: Augustae Taurinorum and Bibliothecam Salesianam, 1881. Paperback. Printed green wraps, 8vo (9-1/2 inches [24.3 cm] tall), pp. (1) title, (1) copyright, xvi, 843, (1) blank, (4) Apud Eumdem Editorem, top edge trimmed, bottom and fore-edges untrimmed, paper tape with call number in pencil applied to spine. Ex-college library..... More
![Item #4246 [Baskerville] [Aeneid] The Works of Virgil, Englished by Robert Andrews. VIRGIL](https://harropianbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4246.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677117029)
Birmingham, UK: Printed by John Baskerville for the Author, 1766. Hardcover. Virgil's epic the Aeneid, here bound together with his Pastorals and Georgic works, all translated into English by Robert Andrews and printed by the legendary John Baskerville in Birmingham. Title page with "Printed by John Baskerville for the Author"..... More
London: Lawrence and Churchill, 1690 & 1693. Later Printings. Hardcover. Two 17th century Wilkins works (each w. its own tp) bound within a circa 1800s, full leather decorative binding, having "I VILDARY" watermarked endpapers, and the heraldic bookplate of James Johnson (assumed from the 1872 date accompanying one of the..... More
London: Alex. Hogg, [1782]. Paperback. Thick folio (14-13/16 inches [37.5] tall), printed in double columns, pp. unpaginated (980), 81 (of 82) leaves of plates consisting of full-page engraved illustrations, two frontispieces (Apocrypha and New Testament), maps and city birds-eye-views. Volume lacking both covers, general frontis, dedication and catalogue page, original..... More